Nothing’s done well when it’s done out of self-interest.
THERESE OF LISIEUXWithout love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.
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As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.
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The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.
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Holiness consists simply in doing God’s will, and being just what God wants us to be.
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What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear?
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Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.
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Look at Him while He is looking at you.
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Look at His adorable face. Look at His glazed and sunken eyes. Look at His wounds. Look Jesus in the Face. There, you will see how He loves us.
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I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors’defects–not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.
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Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.
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Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.
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Prayer for me is an updward leap of the heart
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True charity consists in putting up with all one’s neighbors fault’s; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues.
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A heart given to God loses none of its natural tenderness; on the contrary, the more pure and divine it becomes, the more such tenderness increases.
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If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.
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